Quotes About Ethics

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.

We tend to be judged because of our actions.

If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent!

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

Smartass Disciple: Why we shouldn't judge others? Master of Stupidity: Don't! Unless you are paid for it.

The moral high ground was at the top of a slippery slope—

they wouldn't do interviews with magazines they themselves wouldn't read; they would play only all-ages shows and tickets would be $5.

So they just made sure they weren't part of the problem and fought the good fight, knowing they'd never prevail.

Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Always true to the code," she said.

My grandfather went around to the back door. He did not care if his visit endangered the shopkeeper's life, but he wanted it to seem as though he did.

In order to destroy the world, it becomes necessary to save it.